Couldn't agree more! Transparency about our #positionality is key to research integrity. Historically, claims of objectivity, particularly in quantitative research, have too often obscured the researcher’s role in legitimising particular perspectives. wonkhe.com/blogs/positi... #IOEIDL
"Displacement makes it impossible to occupy the position academic training demands: the view from nowhere." This is good. Read it. #Academia #Research #Positionality #Displacement
✨ Tag someone who uses their strengths wisely.
#Activator #CliftonStrengths #CulturallyInformedStrengths #StrengthsInAction #TheStrengthsProfessor #RootedAndRising #HigherEdLeadership #ContextMatters #Positionality #AuthenticLeadership
NEXT UP: Dana El Kurd on positionality and the advantages (and disadvantages) of looking like, and talking in the same language as, one's human subjects.
#palestine #positionality #qualitativeresearch #improvisationalpluralism #archivalraiders
Dana El Kurd (University of Richmond) on fieldwork as a homecoming, improvising, making people laugh, and being able to laugh at yourself.
#ethnographymatters #palestine #researchdesign #qualitativeresearch #positionality #archivalraiders
What's our Approach?
We approach problems with questions.
#ActivistAnthropology
#Ethnography
#Oralhistory
#Surveys
#Observation
#DataAnalysis
#Coding
#Collaborative
#Positionality
#MarginalizedVoices
#Underserved
#Locatingbarriers
#Reducingharms
#radicalapproaches
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We’ll hear from Michelle Jamieson and Nicki Lisa Cole on what qualitative open research means and how positionality statements, a key technique in qualitative inquiry, can help open up research processes across disciplines.
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #QualitativeResearch #Positionality
Displacement and Solidarity: Reflections on African Phenomenology, Interview with Abraham Olivier
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUw...
#africanphilosophy #phenomenology #displacement #Positionality #community #communality #Ubuntu #liberation #solidarity #colonialism #Apartheid #epistemicide
This was a fantastic seminar @profbriannakennedy.bsky.social @centcs.bsky.social with so much to consider in our #FutureOfHeadship research! #Positionality #Ethics #SocioHistorical & #Geographical dimensions. @seralisen.bsky.social @seraethics.bsky.social @julie67.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social
Not sure it's "centrists and the center-left writ large" that have the most urgent "talk like normal people" problem #folx #praxis #BIPOC #LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA #ACAB #microaggression #positionality #degrowth
Sharing an old post I wrote during my PhD when I was exploring Reflexive Thematic Analysis.
The reflexive process cannot be determined by an ethics board or reviewing committee - it is a journey..
hudasyyed.org/2025/06/30/q...
#QualitativeResearch #Positionality #Reflexivity
Toward Active #Reflexivity: #Positionality and Practice in the Production of #Knowledge
by Jessica Soedirgo and Aarie Glas
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Being True and Being You: Race, Gender, Class, and the #Fieldwork #Experience
by Erica Townsend-Bell
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Today I'll give my 1st academic presentation - 9mths into my 5 year PhD at @northumbriauni.bsky.social Business & Law School Conference
A lightning talk “Bridging Practice and Power: Exploring VCSE Research Leadership from Within"
So grateful for this opportunity
#VCSE #PhDLife #Positionality
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Making space for positionality stories in higher education: using embodied feminist and critical pedagogies in practice by Sharon greenwood and Jo Edson Ferrie. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspecitives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Making space for positionality stories in higher education: using embodied feminist and critical pedagogies in practice
By Sharon Greenwood and Jo Edson Ferrie
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #Positionality
...but because a failure to consider it sufficiently can have theoretical implications through positioning the researcher at a greater remove from the field site than they are. like, you become an element of the social world you're studying, you're not on the sidelines #reflexivity #positionality
📚 Call for Abstracts! We are inviting chapter proposals for a new edited book on positionality and reflexivity in research! Check out the Call for Abstracts below for more details! ⤵️ #AcademicSky #ResearchIdentity #ReflexivityInResearch #Positionality #PhDlife
Title slide of the presentation: Teacher and researcher positionality in praxis: Adapting dynamic assessment to increase learner agency in classrooms
DD-Lang project's @dima403.bsky.social and Matt Poehner presented the paper:
#Teacher and #researcher
#positionality in #praxis:
Adapting dynamic #assessment to increase #learner #agency in classrooms
at #AAAL2025
Figure 1. Stephanie’s (Left) and April’s (Right) Paper Dolls From Initial Play.
This paper examines the ways that artful inquiry affords qualitative research students newly creative and embodied opportunities to understand and engage with subjectivity and bias—important concepts in the eld of qualitative inquiry. Moving beyond the inadequacy of traditional teaching practices, such as student-generated written sub- jectivity statements, we share here an artful methodological approach using paper dolls to disrupt conventional engagements with these concepts. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s emphasis on layer(ing)s of subjectivity and Karen Barad’s discussion of cutting together-apart as a creative process, we draw from collaging in/as research to offer this paper doll activity as a constructive and disruptive way to invite students to consider themselves as complex, messy, and inevitable aspects of the research process.
Check out "A Layering of Selves: Bias, Subjectivity, and Paper Dolls," a more #creative and #fun way for #qualitative #students to explore #subjectivity, #positionality, & #bias. FREE access:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #highered #research #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #methodology
Helpful roundup by Mirjam Glessmer of recent pieces on #positionality statements and reflexivity in research
mirjamglessmer.com/2024/12/17/reading-up-on...
My latest blog post, “The Proportionality of Positionality Statements" buff.ly/4ga5X7A #activism #autoethnography #criticaltheory #livedexperience #pedagogy #PhDLife #positionality
If you’re working on #knowledge production, #positionality, or fieldwork encounters from a Southern #epistemology. There are ten more days to submit a paper and join our panel discussion on ‘Reversing the Gaze in #Development Studies’ at the #DSA2025 conference. nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
I have a new piece up on #Positionality Studies, a peer-reviewed blog project about identity in #writingstudies, in which I talk about my experience of racial identities and power dynamics in the undergraduate writing classroom.
Please share widely!
#academicsky
medium.com/positionalit...
True, it's tough to do/write about this topic. That's why we need so much #reflexivity to unpack #positionality and discomfort in the field. Thanks again for this contribution.
A screenshot of a text file. The contents of the text file are: - What kind of school did you go to growing up? What was school like for you? - What race or ethnicity are you? What cultures have been significant to you throughout your life? - How old are you? Does your age affect how people treat you? - What gender do you identify as? Is that the same as the gender you were assigned when you were born? - What is your sexuality? Is your sexuality important to you, or unimportant? - Do you have any disabilities or long-term conditions that affect how you do everyday things? Are they visible, or invisible? - Where did you grow up? How does that place feature in your life now? - What is your highest level of education? What did you gain from those experiences? - How long have you been in your current role? Does this affect how people treat you? - What class did you grew up as, and what class do you feel that you are now? How has your class affected you throughout your life? Having considered each of these aspects of your positionality, ask yourself: - Which of these identities and experiences do I bring to the classroom? - How do they shape my assumptions about teaching and the students I teach? - How do these identities and experiences affect how students interact with me and other students?
I've spent most of the day finishing up the latest version of our (Fiasco-like!) game to help teachers develop anti-racist pedagogies and practice.
I really enjoyed writing our #positionality exercise. It emphasises how our backgrounds, experiences, and identities are fluid, dynamic, multiple...
👋 What great examples of researcher positionality and reflexivity statements stand out in #qualitativeresearch?
Any study design works, but I'm doing a personal ethnography (research as me-research).
#reflexivity #positionality #mixedmethods
Here's a link to @amymarvin.bsky.social's full piece again. Please read it.
#writingstudies #disciplinarity #positionality
blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...
Oh, you want to do #positionality statements? Cool!
Tell me the value of your home, and tell me how much your parents or in-laws gave you when you first bought it.
Just in time for my defence in July, my third PhD article is now available #OA at Technology in Society: sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Of my three PhD projects, this one was by far the most instructive & challenging. It taught me a lot about #positionality, #reflexivity & #Hawaiʻi.
The issue is not the reviewer’s request,but the system of knowledge production that requires us to ignore bias embedded w/in it. If done well by everyone, disclosing #positionality yields more honest #science. It acknowledges that science isn’t bias-free & unmasks potential sources of a priori bias.
Episode 1 of my podcast series on #positionality is out. It features @danaelkurd.bsky.social on navigating her identity as a Palestinian woman scholar researching #Palestine, the suspicion she faces related to this identity, and her thoughts on decolonizing science.
soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...
